Stock You May Need To Reconsider: Manning & Napier, Inc. (NYSE:MN)

Key Statistics

Manning & Napier, Inc. (NYSE:MN) escalated 2.28% and closed its last trading session at $2.24. Its opening price on the last trading day was $2.19. The company’s market cap is $33.6 Million. The company has 15 Million shares outstanding and 14.79 Million shares were floated in market. The short ratio in the company’s stock is documented at 10 and the short float is around of 7.25%. Manning & Napier, Inc. has been given an analysts’ mean target of 3.5.

52-week High/Low

The highest price MN stock touched in the last 12 month was $3.85 and the lowest price it hit in the same period was $1.65. Stock’s distance from 52 week High is -41.82% and the distance from 52 week Low is 35.76%.

Share Volume Analysis

A total of 37.93 Million shares exchanged at hands and its average trading volume is standing at 107.25 Million shares. The relative volume of the stock is 0.35.

Stock Performance

Manning & Napier, Inc. (NYSE:MN) performance during the last one year degraded -39.46 percent, while its year to date (YTD) performance showed a positive trend of 27.27 percent. The stock fell -20 percent over the past six months. The stock’s quarterly performance indicates a positive momentum of 12 percent, whereas its last one month trend is pessimistic with -2.61 percent. Its weekly performance showed downward trend of -4.27 percent.

Profit Margins Analysis

Profitability analysis helps a great deal in making investment decision. Net profit margin of the company was recorded at 1.2 percent, operating profit margin was 20.2 percent, while gross profit margin stands at 0 percent.

Key Ratios Review

Liquidity ratios help investors to determine a company’s ability to pay off its debts. For the most recent quarter, quick ratio was 4.7, current ratio was 4.7, LT Debt/Equity ratio was 0 and Total Debt/Equity ratio stands at 0, while Payout ratio is 2.308.

Return on Assets, Investment and Equity

Manning & Napier, Inc. (NYSE:MN) has a Return on Assets of 1 percent, Return on Investment of 32 percent and a Return on Equity of 1.3 percent.

Simple Moving Average

Moving averages are used as a strong indicator for technical stock analysis and it helps investors in figuring out where the stock has been and also helps in determining where it may be possibly heading. Now we look at the Moving Averages, the 200-day is -13.57%, the 50-day is 15.41% and the 20-day is 4.67%.

EPS Growth Analysis
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The company’s diluted EPS for trailing twelve months was 1.28.
EPS Estimate for the next year is 0.17.
EPS Estimate for the next Quarter is 0.05.
EPS Growth this year is 128.1 percent.

”Earnings and Sales Growth
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EPS growth for the next 5 years is 8 percent.
Annual EPS growth Past 5 years is 50.6 percent.
Annual Sales Growth in the past 5 years was -9.7 percent.
Quarterly Revenue Growth on year-over-year basis stands at -17.8 percent.
Quarterly Earnings Growth on year-over-year basis stands at 357.3 percent.

”Investment Valuation Ratios

The company P/E (price to earnings) ratio is 1.75 and Forward P/E ratio is 13.18. The company P/S (price to Sales) ratio is 0.2, P/B (price to Book) ratio is 0.21, while its P/C (price to Cash) ratio stands at 0.23.

Volatility Analysis

If we look at the Volatility of Manning & Napier, Inc. (NYSE:MN), Week Volatility is 7.77%, whereas Month Volatility is at 6.80%.

Institutional ownership refers to the ownership stake in a company that is held by large financial organizations, pension funds or endowments. Manning & Napier, Inc.’s institutional ownership is 48.7%, while its institutional transactions stand at -5.74%.